Quotes About Transition

You can't pour wine back and forth between two vessels forever

Me do not live as you do. For us, love doesn't fade gradually. It snaps like a branch bent to far.

psychopomp.

You've had to turn yourself into something else, and you've done it. Sometimes, when I look at you, I'm not sure if you'd even know how to be human anymore.

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So this is how you've been living,' the little imp grumbles. 'A worm in a butterfly's cocoon.

Maybe I believe that it's time for Elfhame to be ruled by a queen.

Changing is what people do when they have no options left

Come back when returning feels like a hard choice instead of an easy one

He is wearing his golden armour again, the boy who'd been my friend disappearing into a man I don't know.

A medida que nos hacemos mayores, las cosas van cambiando. Y por mucho que anhele ese cambio, también me da miedo.

On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens. —Henry Ward Beecher

Siempre hay algo que perder

We are getting older and things are changing. We are changing. And as eager as I am for it, I am also afraid.

Sometimes it seemed as though all her life was already used up in that dark basement, as if her mother's mouth on Tana's arm was the last thing in her life before this that had felt real. Everything else was just prologue and epilogue.

May you live in interesting times. She thought maybe it was a Chinese curse.

Since I've been pregnant, I've lost my taste for fast food. I used to be the biggest McDonald's junkie and now I don't like it anymore. I used to be the biggest fast-food connoisseur, and now I've really lost my taste for it.

She supposed it was a universal truth that mothers, after tearing out their hair and tacking their raw beating hearts to the outsides of their clothing for anyone to see, were given no warning that some-day their baby-holding days would be over.

Sleep, the brother of Death.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.

Enfin, hormis le nombre des personnages, en remplaçant le loto par le whist, et en supprimant les figures de monsieur et de madame Grandet, la sc?ne, par laquelle commence cette histoire, était ? peu pr?s la m?me que par le passé. La meute poursuivait toujours Eugénie et ses millions; mais la meute plus nombreuse aboyait mieux, et cernait sa proie avec ensemble.

Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.

Future Perfect Where you were before you were born, and where you are when you're not anymore might be very close. Might be the same place, though neither is as slippery as being here but imagining where you will have been- that point where things land, are finished, over, and gone but not yet.

She wouldn't have bothered to try to fix it. (her marriage) She would have let herself fall into something fresh and new and delicious.